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"Bird puts fancy fill into spray." (9)
No predictions this time as to how easy or difficult it is as I'm invariably wrong  .
Good luck.
Andy B
Edit: The answer is Bullfinch
Spray = Bunch, as in bunch of flowers
put a fancy (anagram) of fill = llfi into it =>Bu llfi nch
I though the spray bit might have caught people out. I'll try to think of something much easier for tomorrow as I'm otherwise occupied on Thursday .
modified 20-Jun-17 9:39am.
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We give in - answer please 
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OK, will post the solution in the OP.
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Dude, there are 1001 things I would think of before associating "spray" with "bunch".
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I know that programming questions are not to be published in the Lounge and this could qualify, but still...
I tried the american coffee, and... I liked it. Even my girlfriend, who doesn't like (italian) coffee at all, liked it. So the question is: how do I brew it at home? In Italy we have mailny espresso machines and moka cafetieres, and I know nothing else.
Thanks for your suggestions
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Buy cheap powdered coffee and a filter. Put coffee into filter. Heat water. Pour water over ground coffee.
Add a cows' worth of milk. Presto, American coffee.
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Basically a tea  I like it black and unsugared (that's why I'm thinking of switching to american coffee).
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Not really, it changes a lot - in fact watered down espresso or moka is quite terrible.
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I don't know what a moca is, but espresso is just water that has been passed through ground coffee. The only difference is the amount of water used.
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what are you Russian?
My Russian friends call American Coffee: Coffee Juice
Literally the Juice taken when you squeeze a little bit of real coffee into a cup of hot water.
On the other hand, Russian Coffee, to me, was thicker than Molasses or Black Tar. And it explained all of the Potholes in russian roads. They were drinking the blacktop...
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Get a cafetiere[^] and ground coffee (you can use Espresso if you want to start with). You put coffee ground in, add hot water, and let it stew to the level you want. Add milk and sugar if you wish (or an extra shot of espresso if you need waking up) and Robert is your father's brother.
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That's American coffee; weak and with milk. I'd prefer an Irish one.
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I like that too, but you should go very easy on the coffee.![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...Robert is your father's brother.
While this works, Robert is your Mother's Brother sounds better.
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While this works, Robert is your Mother's Brother sounds better.
In these more equal times I also often hear "Bob's your auntie".
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So you use a french press to make american coffee? 
I'm sensing a mixup of definitions here.
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Easy, make a cup of good flavoured Italian Coffee, and pour into a cup. Pour the coffee down the sink. Top up the cup with hot, warm or tepid water and you have American Coffee.
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Now I know how my American mates are drinking like a 40oz cup of "coffee".
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Yup, the taste is actually the same sometimes though I prefer it as I can lower my daily amount of sugar and keep chugging coffee without destroying my heart!
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Despite all the Euro-jabber, the primary difference between American coffee and almost everyone elses coffee is the roast. It's notably lighter.
The fact that it's not as strong as espresso is because it's not made like espresso. You were given lots of advice, mostly knee-jerk criticism (a Euro-Habit when discussing American fare), but the roast and strength are the two characteristics that define it. "Latin-Roast" coffee, which is what I mostly buy, is in between, often favoring a darker side of in-between.
All coffee, despite the over-priced systems, is an elution of ground roasted beans by (normally very hot) water. That, too, makes a big difference:
DRIP - very common - coffee is ground and place in a filter - hot water poured through once.
PERK - Coffee is in a basket and boiling water causes a pumping action that pumps water up to the coffee from where it drips back into the pot. This continues until "done", which is automatic for electric pots and up to your taste for stove-top models. In this method, the coffee is heated and repumped many times - and this strongly influences the flavor.
MUD - Use very finely ground coffee and add boiling water. Stir. Wait. Stir. The finely ground coffee will settle to the bottom in a stable cake (hence very fine grind, like Turkish coffee). Coffee flavor is at its most natural state - and really damn good.
VACCUUM DRIP - a piece of lab-ware for the home. In this device, water is in a lower pot, coffee in an upper funnel that fits air-tight to the lower pot, and has some sort of filter (net or "Cory rod" that allows the free flow of liquid. When the water in the lower pot boils it if forced to the upper pot by steam and there brews the coffee. It can be held there somewhat indefinitely based upon your personal taste - brewing and keeping hot as long as you like without boiling. When taken from the heat source, condensed steam in the bottom causes a partial vacuum which sucks the eluted coffee back to the bottom. I love these and if you can find a glass one, it's awesome.
You know how the espresso-type machines work.
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Thanks for the thorough explanation, I tried almost every italian coffee (except the Napoletana) but I'm terribly ignorant of the others.
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* I'm a puny punmaker.
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While I can't compete with that detailed description, I can expand on some equipment.
I have one of these: drip coffee maker[^] to brew the coffee.
You also might invest in a burr grinder[^] so you can buy the beans and grind them fresh.
As for the coffee, here's a selfless plug for a local coffee roaster that is excellent: PT's Coffee[^]
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Well said... the bulk of the comments have been "If you don't do it the way I like it, it's wrong...", oh, and add milk and sugar.
I like my coffee with a dark roast, and black - no sugar, no milk, no creamer... just water and coffee.
And if others don't like it? Feel free to mix your beverage as you desire.
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